A must see
Jan. 14th, 2012 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniTake Shelter is a very good film that manages to be about mental illness, the current crisis in America and the end of the world, all at once!
In other words, it's about fear and vulnerability in a middle class family in Midwest, and the tall Michael Shannon is terrific at embodying that paranoid America.
This daring film seems to mix genres, borrowing from Hitchcock and Stephen King, somewhere between the psychological thriller, the social study, the mystical parable, the intimate drama and the disaster movie; it could be a mess, but it's a success. Jeff Nicols masters his subject, the mise-en-scène is flawless, the slow-burn pace is perfect and the photography is beautiful.
In other words, it's about fear and vulnerability in a middle class family in Midwest, and the tall Michael Shannon is terrific at embodying that paranoid America.
This daring film seems to mix genres, borrowing from Hitchcock and Stephen King, somewhere between the psychological thriller, the social study, the mystical parable, the intimate drama and the disaster movie; it could be a mess, but it's a success. Jeff Nicols masters his subject, the mise-en-scène is flawless, the slow-burn pace is perfect and the photography is beautiful.